Blog about Programming, Open Source, Technology, Software and IT Jobs. in 2018-12-12

State of the Word 2018 and Enterprise WordPress

Last week saw the release of WordPress 5.0, the project’s first major update in a little over a year. It’s most notable for the...

Get Your Insights On The Go With The GameAnalytics Mobile App

On the 8th October 2018, we released our free GameAnalytics Mobile App,...

Plus advent calendar door #12: How the velodrome found its form

Sir Chris Hoy leads the GB Cycling Team during the official opening of the...

You Are a Tool

Animation Mentor Co-Founder Shawn Kelly drops some truth bombs about being a studio animator. Don’t worry—it’s not as bad as it sounds! Before we dive in, I want to say one thing. This article might sound a...

Morgan Stanley Invests $47M in California Software Firm

Visionary Integration Professionals, a technology firm that makes business strategy software for governments and corporations, received a $47.3 million investment from Morgan Stanley Credit Partners, according to a...

Java 12 to drop raw string literals

The JDK Enhancement Proposals (JEP) team is proposing they drop raw string literals from version 12 of the Java programming language. According to the JEP, “a raw string literal can span multiple lines of source code and does not interpret escape sequences, such as \n, or Unicode escapes, of the form \uXXXX.” The goal for adding this into the programming language was to make it easier for developers to express sequences of...

WaveOptics Raises $26m in New Funding Round, Sets Eyes on Making Affordable AR Hardware

WaveOptics, a UK-based designer and manufacturer of diffractive waveguide optics for AR displays, has raised $26 million (£20m) from existing shareholders and new investors. The money will be used to continue building...

'Fortnite' Is So Popular It Could End Steam's Decade-Long Dominance

With few exceptions, products released on digital distribution platforms such as Steam, the Apple App Store, or Google Play, split revenues from sales with the platforms 70/30. The developer of the app or game takes 70...

Oracle Takes Gloves Off in JEDI Lawsuit

Large government contract awards invariably draw protests from losing bidders hoping to gum up the works and perhaps gain a piece of the action on appeal. The Defense Department’s huge cloud contract has taken these...

San Francisco police chief tells officers not to sit suspects on the ground; calls it 'demeaning'

SFPD Chief William Scott. Credit: City and County of San Francisco. San Francisco’s police may no longer force suspects to sit on the ground, thanks to a memo from their chief that deems the practice...

Amplifying User Intelligence with Chatbot Feedback Loops

So you’ve just set up your chatbot, and it’s working well — congrats! Now for the bad news: if you don’t set up a feedback loop right away, your chatbot could already be falling short of its potential. But...

Canada’s connection to Bernie Madoff continues through the courts a decade later

Bernard Madoff 10 years ago this week confessed to running a massive Ponzi scheme that defrauded investors of billions and billions of dollars. The wave of litigation that followed has still not completely receded, and...

Business Schools are Rewriting the Student Experience Rulebook

Empowered by connected consumer technology, today’s students are growing up in a world of instant gratification and unprecedented choice. And their expectations are changing all the time. Whether they’re...

Intel Unveils All-New 10nm ‘Sunny Cove’ CPU Architecture

Intel 10nm and Beyond Intel finally revealed their most up-to-date CPU roadmap at the 2018 Architecture Day. Enthusiasts have been waiting for this news for a while, especially since most Intel news is almost entirely...

Highlights from Chrome Dev Summit 2018

Have you heard of Google Chrome Dev Summit? If you haven’t heard of it and the awesome cool things Chrome engineers have been working on lately, this article is for you.I’m a front-end engineer working on an...

Highlights from Chrome Dev Summit 2018

by Chiamaka IkeanyiHighlights from Chrome Dev Summit 2018Have you heard of Google Chrome Dev Summit? If you haven’t heard of it and the awesome cool things Chrome engineers have been working on lately, this article is...

E-commerce Chatbots: 13 Ways to Increase Sales, Conversions & Retention

It is now a well-known fact that 68.89% of online shoppers abandoned a virtual shopping cart for a number of reasons. These reasons have to be big enough to make things go out of your site’s control. The thumb rule of...

NoNo workshop in London

Smaller cartons of software are cheaper and less risky Vasco Duarte and myself are running our #NoProjects/#NoEstimates workshop again in London – February. This is a one day class with myself and Vasco, it is very...

A blog post by Advanced Recruiting Trends was featured

A blog post by Advanced Recruiting Trends was featuredCandidate Cold Calls Revisited: Making Every Call A Great CallRecently, I had the distinct pleasure of delivering a presentation at the American Staffing Association’s Annual Staffing World Expo in Washington, D.C. I gave a talk entitled, “Going Old School – The Art & Science of Making Every Call A Great Call.”The basic premise of my program was that recruiting has...

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Phanteks Introduces The New PH-TC12LS RGB CPU Cooler

Phanteks today announced the new PH-TC12LS RGB CPU Cooler. The already popular CPU cooler now gets a new illumination upgrade from the award-winning Halos RGB fan frame.Phanteks’ PH-TC12LS RGB is a low profile CPU...

Global Software-defined Perimeter Market 2019-2023 | 34% CAGR Projection Over the Next Five Years | Technavio

LONDON–(BUSINESS WIRE)–lt;a href=”https://twitter.com/hashtag/ITSecurity?src=hash” target=”_blank”gt;#ITSecuritylt;/agt;–The global software-defined perimeter market is expected to post a CAGR of over 34%...

Jonathan Dowland: Game Engine Black Book: DOOM

Fabien's proof copies proud smug face Today is Doom's' 25th anniversary. To mark the occasion, Fabien Sanglard has written and released a book, Game Engine Black Book: DOOM. It's a sequel of-sorts to "Game...

A blog post by Irina Shamaeva was featured

A blog post by Irina Shamaeva was featuredLinkedIn Search OperatorsLinkedIn has documented the operators firstname:, lastname:, title:, company:, and school:. They are redundant because we can search using the relevant textboxes. But it turns out there are many more search operators that work on LinkedIn.Below is a list of LinkedIn search operators that work with any basic or premium account, in the main search box. Many of the search...

A blog post by Rchilli Parser was featured

A blog post by Rchilli Parser was featuredYearly Roundup of ATS Market 2018As the year 2018 is about to end, I thought of reviewing how the year remained for applicant tracking systems so far. I know we all are curious...